This Chinese Movie is Totally Not a Ripoff of Pixar's Cars

Definitely not. No sir.

Pixar's Cars was a brilliant little movie and is also one of my all time favorites. The computer animation was amazing and it was actually a rather fun story. Now, a new movie has been released in China called The Autobots, which features animated cars that look suspiciously like the cars in Cars.

But here's the thing: Zhuo Jianrong, the man behind the new movie, says that while he knows of the movie Cars, he has never actually seen it and apparently just coincidentally made a movie with CGI cars that look exactly the same as the ones in the hit Pixar movie.

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The problem is that many say that the movie is actually of far worse quality than even bad cartoons in China and many families took children to see the movie, believing that they were seeing Cars.

Disney has expressed concerns about the movie, but hasn't filed any paperwork or lawsuits against the company behind the movie, perhaps because they know that copyright cases in China are incredibly hard to fight in the first place.